For example, you must specify a path to one or more files, not a path to a directory. This parameter is required, but the parameter name "Path" is optional. Specifies an alternative data stream for content. If the stream does not exist, this cmdlet creates it.
Wildcard characters are not supported. Stream is a dynamic parameter that the FileSystem provider adds to Clear-Content. This parameter works only in file system drives, and will clear the content of alternative data streams on both files and directories. You can use the Clear-Content cmdlet to change the content of amy alternate data stream, such as Zone. However, we do not recommend this as a way to eliminate security checks that block files that are downloaded from the Internet.
This parameter was introduced in PowerShell 3. As of PowerShell 7. To clear items that are not considered to be content, such as items managed by the PowerShell Certificate or Registry providers, use Clear-Item.
The Clear-Content cmdlet is designed to work with the data exposed by any provider. To list the providers available in your session, type Get-PsProvider. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Specifies, as a string array, an item or items that this cmdlet excludes in the operation. The value of this parameter qualifies the Path parameter. Wildcard characters are permitted.
When using Recurse with Exclude , Exclude only filters results of the current directory. If there are files that match the Exclude pattern in subfolders, those files are removed along with its parent directory. Specifies a filter to qualify the Path parameter.
The FileSystem provider is the only installed PowerShell provider that supports the use of filters. Filters are more efficient than other parameters, because the provider applies them when the cmdlet gets the objects rather than having PowerShell filter the objects after they are retrieved.
Forces the cmdlet to remove items that cannot otherwise be changed, such as hidden or read-only files or read-only aliases or variables. The cmdlet cannot remove constant aliases or variables. Implementation varies from provider to provider. Even using the Force parameter, the cmdlet cannot override security restrictions.
Specifies, as a string array, an item or items that this cmdlet includes in the operation. Specifies a path to one or more locations. The value of LiteralPath is used exactly as it is typed. No characters are interpreted as wildcards.
If the path includes escape characters, enclose it in single quotation marks. Single quotation marks tell PowerShell not to interpret any characters as escape sequences. Indicates that this cmdlet deletes the items in the specified locations and in all child items of the locations.
The Recurse parameter might not delete all subfolders or all child items. Viewed 13k times. How can I delete all files in a directory that contain a string using powershell? Christian Sirolli 25 8 8 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The Force parameter which: Allows the cmdlet to remove items that cannot otherwise be changed, such as hidden or read-only files or read-only aliases or variables.
Update In testing, I was also getting a similar error. Another Update [ and ] are wildcard searches in powershell in order to escape those in some cmdlets you use -Literalpath. Matt Matt RemoveItemCommand — user Not sure if it has to do with quotes or what. I think maybe the [ and ] in the file name to cause powershell to crap out?
I am updating my post — Matt. Had to remove Unique got error but seems to be working now. Is there any way to count how many files were found and how many were actually deleted and report that at the end? I'm running the command for each rating 0,1,2 now The unique was supposed to be part of select-object not select-string i updated my post. Show 1 more comment.
Patrick Patrick 1, 9 9 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. The first example that would be most useful is the most basic — that is, deleting a single file. To delete just a single file, you only need to use the command below.
Running the code above in PowerShell would not show anything on the screen unless an error was encountered. In this example, the code below deletes all files in a folder. The -File parameter indicates that the only type of item to be included are files. Get-ChildItem ignores folders. If you need to also delete the files inside every sub-directory, you need to add the -Recurse switch to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to get all files recursively.
Running the above code forces PowerShell to look into all sub-folders and retrieve all the list of files. The output below shows that the code was able to delete files in the top folder; however, it failed to retrieve the files in the sub-folders.
That error is indicative that the path the cmdlet is trying to get to does not exist — which is misleading. In this case, the error was because the path that the Get-ChildItem is trying to read exceeds the maximum path length of characters.
The screenshot below shows that the path or directory and its sub-directories exist and one text file named InTooDeep. The combination of all the characters that make up the nested directory names creates a long path problem. In Windows PowerShell 5. The workaround is to use the Unicode version of the path. Using the modified code above that caters to the long path name, the output below shows that PowerShell read the deeply nested path name successfully and deleted the file.
Note that the long path name problem does not affect PowerShell 7. With PowerShell 7. If the folders need to be deleted, too, just remove the -File parameter from the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, and PowerShell should delete all items, including files and folders.
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